Top 100 Abhor Quotes
#1. My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#2. I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
Horace
#3. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.
Khaled Hosseini
#4. I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.
Ray Comfort
#6. I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection ... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.
Robert Browning
#7. I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.
David Miliband
#8. Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in.
Catherine Ponder
#9. So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.
- from the story De Composition
David Benioff
#10. I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
Markus Zusak
#11. Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.
Frank Brady
#12. ... worry is an emotional state that I abhor. It tends to be self-absorbed and short-sighted, and holds no purpose other than to waste energy and distract the mind from what actually matters.
Penny Reid
#13. Yet there is a logical flaw at the heart of Establishment thinking. It may abhor the state - but it is completely dependent on the state to flourish.
Owen Jones
#15. - Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.
Paulo Coelho
#16. I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.
Rich Sommer
#17. Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.
A.E. Samaan
#18. I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
#19. Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
Charles Spurgeon
#20. There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor ... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places ...
Edna Walling
#21. I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.
Ross McKitrick
#22. Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
Abigail Adams
#23. Sblood, but you will not hear me: - If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.
William Shakespeare
#24. We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
#25. I abhor men who cheat on their wives and despise women who sleep with married men.
Lisa Lim
#26. I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis
#27. Slaves, slaves to anything or anyone, despite how much they abhor it, will often cling to that slavery out of fear the alternative would be insufferable.
Terry Goodkind
#28. Governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.
George Jonas
#29. God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.
Max Anders
#30. Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.
Amit Chaudhuri
#31. He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
Anonymous
#32. I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
Stieg Larsson
#33. How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?
Johann Ludwig Tieck
#34. I abhor violence. How many times do I have to say it? I am a delicate. Freakn'. Flower!
Eve Langlais
#35. We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists.
Tony Blair
#36. Relationships abhor a vacuum. Whenever one person refuses to mark and fight for their territory the other person will occupy the treasured ground either by default or by committing an act of aggression.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#38. I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.
Tony Blair
#39. I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.
Arthur Smith
#40. He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
Mark Twain
#41. All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.
John Banville
#42. A man may cry out against sin in principle; but he cannot abhor it except by virtue of a godly aversion against it. I have heard many cry out against sin in the pulpit, but who still live with it without any problem in their heart, house, and everyday life.
John Bunyan
#43. Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.
Rollo May
#44. I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza
Lion Feuchtwanger
#45. A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it ... You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.
Jodi Picoult
#46. Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.
Isocrates
#47. There's always money in conflict."
"Says the diehard peacenik?"
"Oh, I abhor real violence, but fake violence is fucking brilliant.
Brian K. Vaughan
#48. I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.
Brigham Young
#50. If he's not going to apologize, I'm not going to be more than barely civil. I realize he is a boy and predisposed to abhor admitting he's wrong. He, however, has given me no reason to stick my neck out.
Tera Lynn Childs
#51. We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness. The way up our ladder is open to everybody. In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else.
David Ogilvy
#52. O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
Aaron Hill
#53. I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common
Callimachus
#54. I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.
Eugene V. Debs
#55. For her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore
Edgar Allan Poe
#57. These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
William Shakespeare
#58. People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Mason Cooley
#59. I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.
Charles Hazlewood
#60. Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure.
Alan Bradley
#61. As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#62. You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
Desmond Tutu
#63. My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor possessiveness.
Diana Athill
#64. When people first come into contact with crime, they abhor it. If they remain in contact with crime for a time, they become accustomed to it, and endure it. If they remain in contact with it long enough, they finally embrace it, and become influenced by it.
Napoleon Hill
#65. And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
William Cowper
#66. Abhor that which is evil; Cleave to that which is good.
Julie Garwood
#67. I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
Shelby Foote
#68. When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
Walter Hilton
#69. In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.
Rob Lowe
#70. Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!
Isabella L. Bird
#71. I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.
Charles Mayo
#72. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cute the opponents. Good luck.
Khaled Hosseini
#73. It may be that hope misleads. But hate - hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#74. I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.
Steven Morrissey
#75. There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.
Vladimir Nabokov
#76. I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
Lyman Abbott
#77. I love Hitler for his leadership, but I abhor his actions.
M.F. Moonzajer
#78. It indebts me to them. I abhor the feeling of being indebted to anyone.
Sara Wolf
#79. Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.
John Adams
#80. When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.
George Stevens
#81. War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
Seneca The Younger
#82. The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.
Matthew Arnold
#83. No profit was too small to despise; no loss was too small to abhor.
Wilbur Smith
#84. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.
Thomas Jefferson
#85. I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
Alexander Theroux
#86. We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?
Herman Melville
#87. 185. It Is Getting So Dark
I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like.
Sei Shonagon
#88. You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing?
Mary Shelley
#89. I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.
Emanuel Celler
#92. Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.
Rosa Luxemburg
#93. Understand their hatred is beyond human comprehension. They abhor the Creator and so also the creation. Whatever brings joy, whatever brings peace, whatever redeems the dark deed or relieves the terrors of the night and their enemies.
Rick Yancey
#94. There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.
George Whitefield
#95. I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
Richard Dawson
#96. The current demand for marijuana and pornography is deeply revealing. Here are two commodities that Americans publicly abhor, privately adore, and buy in astonishing amounts.
Eric Schlosser
#97. We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.
Ezra Taft Benson
#98. As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. In other words no one's ever talked me into anything.
Charlton Heston
#99. I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.
John F. Kennedy
#100. I abhor running real risks, but it's not because I'm afraid of feeling too intensely. It's because they break my perfect focus on my sensations, and this disturbs and depersonalizes me.
I never go where there's risk. I fear the tedium of dangers.
Fernando Pessoa
